Rev 3:14-22
How to Know If the Drink of Your Life is Hot, Iced, or Lukewarm:
1 - Our restoration from cold or lukewarm to hot is rooted in cost and sacrifice. "Buying" is transactional cost of valuable commodities. If wealth is what you live for, the gold must be given up and generosity becomes the focus. If appearance is what you live for (robes); then the righteous robes holiness become the new pursuit. If you feel you cannot see, it is the healing ointment of His Word and Spirit that orient us back to a life of wholeness. If we choose to buy from God with things most valuable to us, the promise is "I will make you hot again".
2 - If God shows His love to us in His reproof and discipline, then we show our love back to God by zeal and repentance (verse 19). Zeal is when I burn so hot nothing that cannot stand the heat of a holy life can't be close to me or it is burned up. Repentance is when anything that comes to mind that may try to turn the heat down is cast out or removed. The fire becomes the focus, and the focus is the fire. Self awareness is the gift we open after salvation, that invites us into a sanctified, surrendered, and holy walk with God.
3 - To sit on the throne created for you, you must become an overcomer. Many times we want God to knock on the door, sit and commune with us, but not respond to the areas we know He is challenging us to overcome. If you're not putting your faith to the test, and overcoming the areas of life you're scared to face, you may be sacrificing the throne He intended you to sit on. The true test of overcoming is our relationship with man's gold or God's gold, the robe of a righteous life or the robes of human hands, the eyes that we rhythmically apply the intent of the Spirit to; that we might see as He sees.
